Church of Our Lady
CHURCH OF OUR LADY, SOUTHPORT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343313
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Our Lady
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF OUR LADY, SOUTHPORT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1343313
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Our Lady
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF OUR LADY, SOUTHPORT ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF OUR LADY, SOUTHPORT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Lydiate
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 36480 05204
Details
LYDIATE SOUTHPORT ROAD SD 30 NE (east side) 4/92 Church of Our Lady G.V. II Catholic church. 1854-5. By J.J. Scoles. Reredos erected in 1878. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings; slate roof. Nave with aisles under lean-to roofs, north west tower, south porch and vestry, and chancel. 4-bay aisles have 2-light windows with early Perpendicular tracery between weathered buttresses; end diagonal buttresses. South porch is gabled, entrance with continuous mouldings and niche above. West end on moulded plinth. West window of 2 lights with quatrefoil above. Tower has 3 stages, north door; 2nd stage has cusped lancets, top stage recessed, with 2-light louvred bell openings, cornice, embattled parapet and crocketed pinnacles. Chancel has moulded plinth, 3-light reticulated east window between diagonal buttresses; quatrefoil above. To north, 2 windows of 2 lights. To south, vestry with gable-end stacks and canted projection in western angle. Interior has arcades on octagonal piers. Roof has scissor-brace trussess. Chancel arch with statues to either side. Alabaster chancel rail; pulpit at north end incoporates C15 figure of a bishop. Elaborate reredos with relief scenes and canopied figures, altar moved forward. Flanking cusped ogee-arched recesses. Piscina with double ogee arch. North aisle altar has quatrefoil opening revealing sculptured entombment, and reredos. West gallery and baptistry to south with C15 alabaster reliefs of life of St. Katherine and visitation taken from St. Katherine's chapel (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD3648005204
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 216491
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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